408 Ransom Street

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HOUSE
1940
NR nomination: Two-story brick-veneered house with side-gabled roof, exterior end-chimney, projecting entry bay, side porch and an extensive rear addition.

In the 1998 survey, this was deemed a Contributing Building.

2015 Survey Update: The house is three bays wide and double-pile with projecting brick quoins at the corners. The house has six-over-six wood-sash windows with flat-arch brick lintels, partial cornice returns, and an exterior brick chimney on the left (south) elevation. Two gabled wall dormers on the façade and rear elevation each have a single window and weatherboards in the gables. The entrance, a six-panel door with four-light transom is centered on the façade in a projecting, front-gabled bay with vertical siding on the façade and side elevations and partial cornice returns supported by pilasters. A one-story, flat-roofed porch on the left elevation has a geometric railing at the roofline and has been fully enclosed with glass. A one-story, hip-roofed wing at the right rear (northwest) has wood shingles on the exterior and may be original. It connects to a later, two-story side-gabled apartment that faces West University Drive to the south. It is two bays wide with fiber-cement shingles, vinyl windows, and an exterior wood stair and deck on the west elevation that accesses a second-floor apartment. County tax records date the house to 1942.

SOURCES: Kaye Graybeal, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: West Chapel Hill Historic District, Orange County OR1439 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 1998); Heather Slane and Cheri Szcodronski, 2015 Survey Update (NCSHPO HPOWEB 2.0, accessed 10 Jan. 2020); courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.